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Full time · Serie A · Sun 23 Aug 2026, 19:45 UTC

Atalanta 21 Sassuolo

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What the chances were worth

Atalanta
0.67
expected goals (xG)
Sassuolo
2.70
expected goals (xG)

The scoreline says 2–1; by chance quality the match ran 0.67–2.70.

What the model expected

Its probabilities for this match, logged before kick-off and never changed. The result is highlighted.

Atalanta
48%
Draw
28%
Sassuolo
24%

The model made Atalanta to win its most likely call before kick-off, and that is what happened. It had the result at 48% beforehand.

One match tells you nothing on its own — whether these percentages are any good is the whole point of the calibration page, where every one of them is scored.

The brain read

Sassuolo created the better chances — the xG read 0.7–2.7 and the shot count agreed (14–21, 7–8 on target). Sassuolo got into the box far more often (11 shots inside it to 8). Atalanta's finishing ran hot — 2 from 0.7 xG, 7 of 14 shots on target (a finishing read inferred from shots on target and goals vs xG — not measured shot placement). The 2–1 flatters Atalanta — on chances created, Sassuolo shaded it.

A second opinion written by rule from the numbers on this page — where the shot picture and the xG disagree, it says so rather than picking a winner. Backward-looking only; it claims nothing about any future result.

The match in numbers

Atalanta
Sassuolo
57%
Ball Possession
43%
14
Total Shots
21
7
Shots on Goal
8
4
Shots off Goal
8
3
Blocked Shots
5
8
Shots inside box
11
6
Shots outside box
10
0.67
Expected goals (xG)
2.70
4
Corner Kicks
4
0
Offsides
1
590
Total passes
432
541
Passes accurate
388
92%
Passes %
90%
9
Fouls
10
7
Goalkeeper Saves
5
-0.81
Goals prevented
-0.81

As returned by the data feed at full time. Bars show each side’s share of the stat.

Confirmed line-ups

Captured from the official team sheets in the last hour before kick-off. The pick test requires these to be in before any call counts.

Atalanta 4-3-3

  1. 3 Odilon Kossounou (D)
  2. 8 Mario Pašalić (M)
  3. 9 Gianluca Scamacca (F)
  4. 13 Éderson (M)
  5. 18 Giacomo Raspadori (F)
  6. 29 Marco Carnesecchi (G)
  7. 42 Giorgio Scalvini (D)
  8. 47 Lorenzo Bernasconi (D)
  9. 59 Nicola Zalewski (F)
  10. 70 Gianluca Gaetano (M)
  11. 77 Davide Zappacosta (D)

Bench: Paolo Vismara, Marco Sportiello, Relja Obrić, Sead Kolašinac, Lazar Samardžić, Raoul Bellanova, Federico Cassa, Ibrahim Sulemana, Eljif Elmas, Marten de Roon, Charles De Ketelaere, Nikola Krstović

Sassuolo 4-3-3

  1. 3 Josh Doig (D)
  2. 7 Cristian Volpato (F)
  3. 9 Kieron Bowie (F)
  4. 17 Vasilije Adžić (M)
  5. 18 Nemanja Matić (M)
  6. 26 Cas Odenthal (D)
  7. 31 Tommaso Macchioni (D)
  8. 45 Armand Laurienté (F)
  9. 46 Simone Cinquegrano (D)
  10. 49 Arijanet Murić (G)
  11. 50 Darryl Bakola (M)

Bench: Stefano Turati, Fedde Leysen, Jay Idzes, Alessandro Di Bitonto, Rafael Obrador, Edoardo Iannoni, Riccardo Ciervo, Filippo Missori, Andrea Ghion, Benjamín Domínguez, Luca Lipani, Kristian Thorstvedt, Patrick Amiamo Nuamah, Nicholas Pierini, Gabriel Kulla

The market’s read

Atalanta
62%
market implied · price 1.54 · opened 62%
Draw
22%
market implied · price 4.24 · opened 22%
Sassuolo
16%
market implied · price 5.98 · opened 16%
MarketConsensus priceImplied chanceMove
Double chance Atalanta or draw1.1483.4%-0.4 pts
Double chance Sassuolo or draw2.4638.6%+0.8 pts
Double chance either team1.2178.0%-0.4 pts
Draw no bet — Atalanta1.1878.5%-0.5 pts
Draw no bet — Sassuolo4.3221.5%+0.5 pts
Over 1.5 goals1.2177.8%-0.1 pts
Over 2.5 goals1.7155.5%-0.8 pts
Over 3.5 goals2.7234.5%-0.8 pts
Both teams to score1.7752.7%-0.2 pts
Atalanta over 1.5 team goals1.5659.7%-0.5 pts
Sassuolo over 1.5 team goals3.8324.5%-0.3 pts
Atalanta clean sheet2.2541.1%+0.4 pts
Sassuolo clean sheet6.5014.6%+0.2 pts

Shortest-priced scorelines: 1-0 7.37 · 2-0 7.51 · 1-1 7.64 · 2-1 7.78 · 3-0 10.96

Consensus of bookmaker prices captured 2026-08-23 20:40 UTC. These are the closing prices — the market’s last word before kick-off. The Move column is how each market’s implied chance has shifted since the first price we captured: green = the chance has risen (the price shortened, backing coming in), red = the chance has fallen (the price eased out — what punters call the price ‘drifting’).

Prices are observations, not offers. Each price is the average across the bookmakers the collector sees, and the implied chance is that price with the bookmaker’s margin stripped out. The market’s read is published so the model’s read can be judged against it — nothing here is advice, and nothing here is staked.

Head to head

DateHomeScoreAway
01 Mar 26Sassuolo2-1Atalanta
09 Nov 25Atalanta0-3Sassuolo